Reuben Thomas wrote:
> 1. Is it expected that "make dist" should work without a preceding
> "make"? i.e. is this really a bug?
Not technically, as Eric already explained.
However, ...
> 2. If so, then I have a further problem: if I simply make the file in
> question explicitly depend on zile$(EXEEXT), then zile is compiled by
> make dist, but cannot be linked because it needs ../lib/libgnu.a. How
> do I correctly make "make dist" build this?
I made some changes to accommodate that in cppi recently:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cppi.git/commit/?id=49d4baaf363bc31b2a3
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cppi.git/commit/?id=8a32cf9196e06b74e17
The latter was required only because I use help2man
to generate man pages from --help.
